Stoke Poges
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So You Think You Know? High Wycombe
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Where I grew up. Born 1944.
My Mum and Dad moved into the village in the 1930's into a new house in Rogers Lane and lived there for 66 years. My father was the village tailor working from a workshop in the back garden. My mother was very involved in the village life, joining the WI and also the secretary of the Old Peoples club for a while. Also a member of the local tennis club. My father was a Special Policeman during and just after the war and was a member of the British Legion. I spent my childhood playing in the fields which surrounded Stoke Poges, which now all but a few have been built on. I was in the Stoke Poges church choir for ...read more here
Contributed by Vivien Halse
Walks
I used to walk from Farnham Common down Templewood Lane to visit my friend Viv who lived on Rogers Lane in Stoke Poges. It didn't seem like such a long way back then. This would have been between 1957 and 1960. Both sets of our parents are buried in the Memorial Gardens at St. Giles church. Viv and I lost contact for 40 years, and found each other last year through a website. I now live in the USA.
Stoke Poges holds fond memories, dances at the Village Hall, and flirting with the boys walking down the hill.
Contributed by Jill Trimble
Berkshire memories
Where I grew up. Born 1944.
My Mum and Dad moved into the village in the 1930's into a new house in Rogers Lane and lived there for 66 years. My father was the village tailor working from a workshop in the back garden. My mother was very involved in the village life, joining the WI and also the secretary of the Old Peoples club for a while. Also a member of the local tennis club. My father was a Special Policeman during and just after the war and was a member of the British Legion. I spent my childhood playing in the fields which surrounded Stoke Poges, which now all but a few have been built on. I was in the Stoke Poges church choir for ...read more here
A memory of Stoke Poges contributed by Vivien Halse
Walks
I used to walk from Farnham Common down Templewood Lane to visit my friend Viv who lived on Rogers Lane in Stoke Poges. It didn't seem like such a long way back then. This would have been between 1957 and 1960. Both sets of our parents are buried in the Memorial Gardens at St. Giles church. Viv and I lost contact for 40 years, and found each other last year through a website. I now live in the USA.
Stoke Poges holds fond memories, dances at the Village Hall, and flirting with the boys walking down the hill.
A memory of Stoke Poges contributed by Jill Trimble
Extracts From Stoke Poges & Berkshire books
East of Stoke Park, the medieval church of
Stoke Poges is famous beyond its architecture:
this is reputedly the churchyard of Thomas
Gray’s, ‘Elegy from a Country Churchyard’,
one of the most well known and loved of all
English poems. From the churchyard itself you
can see the tall Gray Monument erected by
John Penn of Stoke Park in 1799.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
The spire, a timber one added in 1702, was
replaced by the present low tiled pyramid in 1924,
for the visual benefit of the church. The creeper has
now gone, exposing the Tudor brick of the Hastings
Chapel on the left.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
We finish with a view of the River Chess winding along the floor of its flat but narrow valley, through its Chiltern
landscape towards Rickmansworth near Loudwater Farm, an area much changed since this view was taken.
An extract from from"Amersham, Chesham And Rickmansworth Photographic Memories".
This view looks south
towards All Saints Church
and shows how the tower
and spire originally closed
the vista well, although
nowadays the church is
hidden by high hedges
and a fine cedar. On the
right is the 18th century
Artichoke pub which
survives but with an added
slated roof linking ground
floor bay windows.
An extract from from"Amersham, Chesham And Rickmansworth Photographic Memories".
This is an interesting view of
All Saints at the south end of
the Green. The church, built
in 1872 to designs of one J
Norton, is in a fairly routine
design but with a circular
turret and spire on the north
or Green side. In 1907 the
exciting architect Temple
More added a nave, turning
the old church into the north
aisle. Moore used brick with
stone bands and produced
a most
successful design.
An extract from from"Amersham, Chesham And Rickmansworth Photographic Memories".